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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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